Warren man Tasered, robbed of medical marijuana

A Warren man was robbed of medical marijuana and cash by two men who broke into his home, police said Monday.

The victim said the intruders entered his home in the 8000 block of Cadillac Avenue about 8 p.m. Sunday, pistol-whipped him and stunned him with a Taser, Police Commissioner Jere Green said.

The culprits stole 3 pounds of marijuana and $2,200 in cash from the victim’s house and fled, police said. Both are described as black males. Police have made no arrests.

The injured man drove to a hospital for treatment.

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“He was not very cooperative” with investigators, Green said.

Investigators suspect the robbers may have known the occupant of the house had credentials as a medical marijuana caregiver to grow pot.

Green said the incident is an example of the potential consequences of the regulation of medical marijuana in Michigan.

“It’s what we call secondary effects,” the city’s top-ranking police administrator said. “We anticipated these kind of things happening. Where there’s dope and money, there’s drugs and bad guys. You can call it what you want.”

“How many have occurred that haven’t been reported?” Green added.

In May 2011, a Warren man residing on Los Angeles Street fatally shot an intruder, in an incident that police initially thought was linked to medical marijuana.

Police said that homeowner was awakened by a knock at the front door but didn’t respond to it. Moments later, he heard knocking at the side door.

The homeowner, who was the lone occupant of the house at the time, saw Mack Devante Click, 17, after the teenager had climbed into the house through a window, police said. The homeowner fired a shotgun once from within the house, and evidence showed the teen fled through a window, officials said. Click collapsed in the backyard and died.

The Macomb County Prosecutor’s Office reviewed the incident and did not file criminal charges against the 31-year-old homeowner. Prosecutors concluded Click had been carrying a knife and that the occupant had a right to defend himself. A knife found outside the window matched those from a cutlery set in the house, officials said.

Investigators suspected that Click, who resided in Warren, was responsible for at least a portion of a rash of burglaries in the area at the time. In a nearly two-month period, 20 residential break-ins were reported in an area measuring approximately one square mile. Victims reported that jewelry and cash were the only things taken from their homes. Evidence technicians were able to lift fingerprints from eight residences. Two of the samples matched Click’s fingerprints, although some of the remaining ones appeared inconclusive, police said.